You are given the following information, but you may prefer to do some research for yourself.

1 Jan 1900 was a Monday.
Thirty days has September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Saving February alone,
Which has twenty-eight, rain or shine.
And on leap years, twenty-nine.
A leap year occurs on any year evenly divisible by 4, but not on a century unless it is divisible by 400.
How many Sundays fell on the first of the month during the twentieth century (1 Jan 1901 to 31 Dec 2000)?

My code gives the answer 173, but that is not correct. Here's my code:

Do you see any error in the code? I've tried debugging it, but i can't find the error.

12-13-2008, 06:36 AM

Eranga

If you debug your code, you must see how the values are change. So why are you cannot find where the error is?

12-13-2008, 04:38 PM

matzahboy

By putting in a lot of "system.out.println" statements?

Anyway, I even plugged in some of the sundays into a date to day calculator, and they were all sundays. I just can't figure out which part of my program contains the error.

12-13-2008, 04:44 PM

matzahboy

I think I just found the error. I was calculating the sundays starting in the year 1900, rather than 1901

12-14-2008, 07:24 AM

Eranga

Quote:

Originally Posted by matzahboy

By putting in a lot of "system.out.println" statements?

You say that for debugging?

12-14-2008, 07:29 AM

matzahboy

I print what the different variables are so that i can find where the error occurs. How do you debug?

12-14-2008, 07:31 AM

Eranga

Using a debugger. I'm working on NetBeans and I can put breakpoints anywhere in the code and hold the execution process.

12-14-2008, 07:33 AM

matzahboy

Does eclipse have that as well? My program (JCreator LITE) does not. I remember that feature when I used to program in VB.net... very useful

12-14-2008, 07:35 AM

Eranga

Check on tools something like Debud, Breakpoint and so on. I'm not Eclipse user, so I don't know the exact way to start on. But that facility must be there.

Did you workout on any Eclipse tutorial? Check on the Eclipse help page as well.

12-14-2008, 07:36 AM

matzahboy

I don't actually use eclipse, but I think I might start using it, because I've heard good things about it.

12-14-2008, 07:41 AM

Eranga

If you are still work on with Notepad + Command prompt, my advice is don't move to any IDE until you get much knowledge on Java basis. That combination helps a lot to learn Java quickly, in my experience.

12-14-2008, 07:42 AM

matzahboy

I use JCreator right now.

Either way, what do you mean by "java basis"?

12-14-2008, 07:45 AM

Eranga

It's all about Java. I think you are newbie to Java, is it? If so you may have to learn more fundamental on Java.

12-14-2008, 07:51 AM

matzahboy

I took a class on java last year in my school, but my teacher wasn't any good. I've been brushing up on my skills with project euler since then.

12-14-2008, 07:53 AM

Eranga

Fine, if you can workout the complete tutorial on Suns' web site you can learn a lot yourself in quick period of time. Get much clear idea about Java fundamentals first and later think about IDEs. At the time use the way you have practiced upto now. :)